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The medical school trying to become anti-racist

The Pharma Data

Eva Larkai, a fourth-year medical student, led the student group demanding change. A major British medical school is leading the drive to eliminate what it calls “inherent racism” in the way doctors are trained in the UK. And he says the problem is one that all UK medical schools and the wider NHS share.

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With retinal images and genetic data, researchers predict cardiovascular, metabolic, and other disease risks

Broad Institute

They found significant associations between the thinning of different retinal layers and increased risk of developing ocular, cardiac, pulmonary, metabolic, and neuropsychiatric diseases and identified genes that are associated with retinal layer thickness. Their findings are published in Science Translational Medicine. “We

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Zebrafish for Disease Modeling and Drug Screening in Pediatric Cancers

biobide

Pediatric cancers exhibit differences at the genetic level compared to the same form of adult disease, which may influence the selected treatment. This New Alternative Model (NAM) provides a platform for High-Content Screening through disease modeling through the transplantation of primary patient tumors into immunocompromised lines.

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Michael Trembley

Broad Institute

Scientist II Michael Trembley is a scientist II at the Precision Cardiology Laboratory (PCL) of the Broad Institute and Bayer, where his research is focused on discovering and validating novel therapeutic targets for heart disease. Trembley holds a Ph.D. in pharmacology from the University of Rochester.

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Simple test for flu could improve diagnosis and surveillance

Broad Institute

The test, developed by a team from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard and Princeton University, and supported by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, uses CRISPR to distinguish between the two main types of seasonal flu, influenza A and B, as well as seasonal flu subtypes H1N1 and H3N2. The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics.

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Study reveals how cancer immunotherapy may cause heart inflammation in some patients

Broad Institute

Doctors currently don’t have effective targeted treatments, so they often have to stop the anti-tumor therapy or give large amounts of steroids, which have their own undesired side effects such as lowering the efficacy of the ICI anti-tumor treatment. This study is a game-changer, paving the way to unearthing the roots of these complications.

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#WhyIScience Q&A: A process development lead returns to her research roots

Broad Institute

By Andrea Tamayo May 30, 2023 Credit: Allison Dougherty, Broad Communications Isabella Teixeira-Soldano studies single cells to better understand disease progression. When I went to school, I was set on becoming a doctor. I told him I was struggling with my classes and that I didn’t think I'd make it to medical school.